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Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

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Established
  
April 2, 1922

Website
  
msmsu.ru

Total enrollment
  
8,306 (2014)

Motto
  
Hinc sanitas

Location
  
Moscow, Russia

Acceptance rate
  
7.5% (2014)

Phone
  
+7 495 609-67-00

Address
  
Delegatskaya ul., 20/1, Moskva, Russia, 127473

Founded
  
2 April 1922, Moscow, Russia

Similar
  
IM Sechenov First Mos, Russian National Research, Russian Medical Academy, Peoples' Friendship University, Moscow State University

Profiles

The Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is principal university for preparing dentists and one of the leading universities in Russia for training in the specialty "Medicine." The university has a 93-year history, which dates back to the first dental schools that have emerged in Russia in the 19th century.

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The university counts its history from 2 April 1922, when the State Institute of Dentistry (GIZ) was founded. In 1927, GIZ was renamed the State Institute of Dentistry and Odontology (GISO). GISO pursued postgraduate specialty dentists, organized dental care to the population, engaged in scientific research. In 1932 GISO was renamed the State Scientific-Research Institute of Dentistry and Odontology.

In 1949, after several re-organizations, the Moscow Medical Stomatological Institute (MMSI), was created which became a scientific advisory center on all matters of dentistry.

In 1999, the institute received a university status and became known as the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry (MSUMD). The university has an unofficial name applied in common parlance, "the 3rd Medical University."

Notable faculty

  • Oleg Yanushevich, DDM - rector of MSUMD, professor, honored doctor of Russia
  • Anatoly Sharpenak (1895 - 1969) - scholar and biochemist, Professor . In 1939 he founded the Department of Biological Chemistry, and headed it until 1969 the founder of one of the theories of the origin and development of dental caries, known as Sharpenak’s theory of caries.
  • Yakov Kahn, MD - professor of Urology.
  • Leo Bokeria, MD - professor, Academician of RAMS, Director of Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery. Bakulev Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Interventional Cardiology FPDO MSMDU.
  • Degree mill

    According to the research performed by the Dissernet community, the university has multiple (>95) cases of Ph.D. level degrees being awarded on the basis of plagiarised theses

    References

    Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry Wikipedia